We did the Met's American Wing over the course of several days...it's a bit spread out, and, as one might expect, it is quite large. Many rooms of OBF (old brown furniture), some as nice as our Statton bedroom suite (can be yours, $4k OBO), but much else too, some historic. As usual, we were drawn mostly to the paintings.
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Beautiful Tiffany windows here and there (some already
posted) |
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"Period" rooms all over the wing, but this Frank Lloyd Wright great
room was the prize catch |
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| The great whatever outside the American wing |
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| Blown and molded glass on one of the terraces |
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| Whistler, Portrait of Theodore Duret |
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St. Gaudens, Bob Louie (Stevenson; very distant relative on Vicki's
side...) |
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| John Singer Sargent, The Wyndham Sisters, 1899 (three-fer) |
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| Sargent, Lady with the Rose, 1882 |
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| Francis William Edmonds, Taking the Census, 1854 |
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| Francis William Edmonds, The New Bonnet, 1858 |
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Enoch Wood Perry, The True American, 1874 (a study in the willful ignorance of the Reconstruction era; it said) |
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Unknown, Moving Day (in Little Old New York), 1827; from the Colonial
period through the 19th century, leases expired on May 1st, a day of
bedlam as entire households and businesses moved.... |
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| Frederick Edwin Church, The Parthenon, 1871 |
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| Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851; muy famoso |
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| Church, Heart of the Andes, 1859 |
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| Albert Bierstadt, The Matterhorn |
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| Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, 1863 |
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| John Trumbull, Alexander Hamilton, 1792 |
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| Gilbert Stewart, George Washington, mid-1790s |
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Samuel F. B. Morse (yes, that Morse), Portrait of Susan
Walker Morse (his daughter), 1837
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| Only in America |
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| Miniaturist's kit |
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| OBF |
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| More OBF |
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Easy Chair, Caleb Gardiner, upholsterer, Rhode Island,
late 18th |
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| High Chest, enameled, Boston, mid-18th |
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| More period rooms |
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| More OBF |
